Fountain-pen.



No. 67|,88l Patented Apr. 9, 190|.

' C. E. FUWLER.

FOUNTAIN PEN.

4(Application led Feb. 7, 1901.)

(No Model.)

i/11 .BY l Arrow/srs UNITED ASTATES 4PATENT OFFICE."

CLARENCE E. FOWLER, OF WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO FREDERICK BRIGGS, OF SAME PLACE..

-FOUNTAIN-PEN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 671,881, dated April 9, 1901.

Application filed February '7. 1901. .Serial No. 46,364. (No model.)

To all whom t 11m/y concern: C is then bent at its juncture with the shank Beit known that I, CLARENCE E. FOWLER, a A', so it will lie snuglyrwithin the shank A citizen of the United States, residing at Washof the pen, 'as shown in Figs. 3 and 4f, when ington,intheDistrict ofColumbia, have made the curvature of the shank C will coincide 55 5 certain new and useful Improvements y in with that of` the shank A. When thus ad- Fountain-Pens, of which the following is a justed, it will be noticed, especially from Fig. specification. 4, that there is provided a double shank which My invention is an improvement in penmay be fitted within the ordinary penholder points, and has for an object, among others, and securely held as desired. At its outer 6o io to provide an improved construction of pen extremity the shank C supports the reservoir which will hold without danger of blotting a B, which when bent up ready for use is as much larger amount of ink than the ordinary shown in Fig. 2, but is struck from the blank pen now on the market and which can be used as shown in Fig. l, in which the reservoir is in any style of holder and embodied in any shown as formed with the side wings B, whose 65 15 style of pen-ine, coarse, stub, or pointed, as edges b are curved to conform to the curvainay be desired; and the invention consists in ture of the body of the pen, as shown in Fig. the novel construction of the pen, as will be 3, and whose rear wings`B2 are separated from hereinafter described and claimed. the Wings B' by slits B2, diverging outwardly,

In the drawings, Figure l is a bottom plan so the said wings may be bent on the dotted 7o 2o View of the blank from which the pen is lines shown in Fig. 1 to form the reservoir formed. Fig. 2 is a bottom plan view of the shown in Fig. 2, when the adjacent edges of pen complete before the fountain attachment the wings B and B2 Will rest comparatively is bent to position for use. Fig. 3 is a botclose together, as shown in Figs. 2 and 6. At tom plan View of the pen complete for use. itsjuncture with the reservoir B the shank C 75 z 5 Fig. L is a longitudinal section on about line is given a downward bend at C', which holds 4 4 of Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a cross-section on the rear end of the reservoir away from the about line 5 5 of Fig. 3. Fig. 6 is a detail perbody of the pen and affords space at either spective view of the reservoir, and Fig. 7 is a side of the rear end of the reservoir for the side View of the pen in place in a'holder ready entrance of ink thereto, this being facilitated 8o 3o for use. by tapering or reducing the width of the wings By my invention I seek to, provide a pen B2 toward Vtheir rear ends, as will be underhaving integral therewith a reservoir understood from Figs. 1, 2, and 6. This ring C2 lying the pen and4 so constructed in connecalso operates to retard the backward flow of tion with the body of the pen that it will in ink from the reservoir when the pen is laid 85 35 no wise interfere with the desired flexibility down. l

.of the pen in use. Manifestly the body A of From the foregoing it will be noticed that the pen may be of any suitable design, having I provide a diamond-shaped reservoir Whose a shank A', which may be curved in crossapex b lies contiguous to the slit of the pen section to properly t a holder, ,as is usual. andextends in practice just past the eye of 9o 4o While I have shown the pen of the variety the pen and terminates between such eye ordinarily known as the Falcon, it must be and the point of the pen, as clearly shown in understood that I do not wish to be limited Figs. 3 and 4.. The reservoir thus underlies. to any particular style of pen-point. The pen the pen-point in the region of its eye and op- A is slitted longitudinally at A2 from its point erates to feed the ink to the point. 95 45 and has its eye A3 at the inner end of such The peculiar form of the ink-reservoir eX- slit A2. The reservoir B has a shank C inteposes but a small surface of the ink within it gral with and extending longitudinally from to the air, thus lessening its liability to dry the rear end of the shank A' of the pen. This by evaporation. shank C is curved in cross-section reversely `While the short flanges at the base of the Ioo 5o to the curvature of the shank A' when the reservoir manifestly lessen the liability of parte are as shown in Fig. 2, and the shank the ink to run when the pen is lying down,

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,aiding in retaining the ink in the reservoir,

as desired.

\ In dipping the pen in ink it should be immersed .beyond the eye, the weight of the ink forcing'it through the opening at the base of the reservoir and filling such reservoir, leaving the pen ready for use. When the wings B of the reservoir are brought together, it`

will be noticed their adjacent edges form a rearwardly-diverging opening or slit, whose front edge lies close to 'the under side of the pen-point in the use of the device. In writing the pressure on the point of the pen operates to open a slight space between the apex 0f the reservoir and the-pen-body, thus allowing the ink to iow freely in 'making the shade-stroke, while. in the upstroke `the feed of the inkis not so free. It will thus be understood the iiow of the ink will always be in proportion to the wants of the writer.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. A pen substantially as herein described having the transversely-curved shank and provided with an integral fountain attachment comprising a shank extended longitudinally from the rear end of the pen-shank and curved in cross-section correspondingly thereto, and a reservoir atv the free extremity of said fountain and so related to the penpoint as to underlie the same whenV adj usted for use, substantially as set forth.

2. A pen having its shank provided with an integral longitudinally-extended reservoirshank returned beneath the pen-shank and curved in'cross-section to coincide with and lying in close relation to the pen-shank and provided at Yits extremity with a reservoir adapted to underlie the Apoint of apen, substantially as set forth. j

8. A pen having a shank provided with an integral longitudinally-extended reservoirshank whose free end is widened to form the side and rear wings of an ink-reservoir, and provided with slits separating the adjacent ends of said wings, the latter being bent to form the reservoir, substantially .as set forth. V4. A pen' provided with a reservoir having 'side and rear wings, and the shank supporting said reservoir and having an outwardlydeiected bend at its juncture therewith, substantially as set forth.

5. Afpen provided with an ink-reservoir arranged to underlie the body of the penand having rear wings arranged to retard the exit of the ink at the rear of the reservoir when the pen is laid down, and a shank'support- .ing said reservoir, substantially as set forth.

6. A pen provided with a reservoir having a shank and a widened portion at the end.

thereof provided with wings separated by intervening slits and bent to form the ink-holding reservoir, substantially as set forth.

'7. As an improved article of manufacture, the pen having integral with its shank a longitudinally-extended shank which is provided at its extremity with an integral reservoir, and has at its juncture' withV said reservoir an outwardly-deflected bend,vsubstantially as set forth.

8. A pen provided with a reservoir underlying the pen-point and having side Wings, and rear wings separated at their adjacent edges from the side wings, substantially as set forth.

CLARENCE E. FOWLER.

Witnesses:

SoLoN C. KEMoN, PERRY B. TURPIN. 

